I'm not really down with the whole "they make my car look cute and girlie!" sales angle of Carlashes, but put them on a kindergarten school bus or daycare van and it's A++, would do business again. [Carlashes]

A reader tipped us to the story of Miss Panama contestant Giosue Cozzarelli, who, like the beauty queens representing the US Americans, such as, had an...interesting answer when she attempted to explain a Confucius saying.

Well, some people are psyched that Miss California USA Carrie Prejean is against same-sex marriage. Who? The people behind he National Organization for Marriage. They've put her in their brand-spanking new ad:

Last night's Miss USA pageant: judge Perez Hilton poses a question to Miss California, Carrie Prejean, about gay marriage. Prejean responds, "We live in a land where we can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage."

The Miss USA pageant has always been the basic cable version of the iconic Miss America pageant, but after the "make under" that the latter received this year, the trash and flash of Miss USA is so totally welcome. Case in point: The pageant just started and there are so many sequins all over the place. Let's get…

It's taken us a while to get around to this, but the new commercial for the Miss USA pageant — airing on NBC on April 11 — is sort of a mindfuck. Instead of sweeping previous embarrassing moments under the rug, NBC is embracing them and encouraging TV watchers to tune in because they might just see a beautiful woman…